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Police: Man suffered life-threatening injuries after standing on wrong side of barricade

By Shaw Media

Sept. 24, 2018

As a Rockdale man is in a Downers Grove hospital with life-threatening injuries, police are seeking video for more details on how he got hit by a mud truck during an event Saturday evening at the Sandwich Fairgrounds.

According to a news release from the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded about 5 p.m. to the fairgrounds, 1401 Suydam Road, where Edward E. Oldaker, 48, of the 100 block Central Avenue, had been struck by a mud truck driven by Brittany M. Thom, 24, of the W200 block of County Road N in Niagara, Wis., during the Dirty Grape Off-Road event.

The release says video taken at the event shows Oldaker was standing on the edge of the end of the track, on the wrong side of a protective, concrete barricade, when Thom's modified off-road 1997 Chevy S-10 pickup traveled south on the mud truck, reached the end and went left, where it struck Oldaker.

He was flown to Good Samaritan Hospital with life-threatening injuries, the release says. It adds that anyone who witnessed or, better yet, took video of the incident should call the sheriff's office at 815-895-2155.

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